Wes Widner is the Cloud Engineering Manager at CrowdStrike. Wes will be talking about personal voice assistants are the wave of the future. So naturally we should wonder about the unique attack vectors they pose. I’d like to discuss my research into this field and share a few tips on how you can keep yourself safe around voice assistants.

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Wes Widner – None – engineers clouds with Crowdstrike. Large-scale distributed threat intelligence systems that span a range of threat vectors are his bread and butter. His work history includes data engineering with McAfee Labs’s Global Threat Intelligence department and malware pipelining with Norse Corporation. In his ample spare time, Wes also enjoys teaching children how to hack, ethically of course.

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